Medicated article.



A. B. KLEIN. MEDIGATED ARTICLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 10, 1908.

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attmmu" V UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR a. KLEIN, or oovrne'ron, KENTUCKY.

-MEDICA'1ED' ARTICLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 6, 1910.

Application filed April 10, 1908. Serial No. 426,354.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR B. KLEIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Covington, in the county of Kenton and Stateof Kentucky,have invented new and useful Improvements in Medicated Articles, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The invention relates to an improvement in medicated articles and ismore particularly directed to a cigar structure'made up of the usualfiller and wrapper in Which a medicament is concealed to permit theeffects thereof reaching the smoker during the consumption of the cigar.

It has been heretofore proposed to supply articles, such as cigarettesor the like with a certain proportion of medicament but experience hasdemonstrated that owing to the necessity of mixing this medicament withthe granulated tobacco with which the cigarette is made, an evendistribution of the medicament is practically'impossible, so thatcigarettes made up of the particular impregnated material will vary inthe proportion of a medicament.

The present invention is designed more particularl to obviate theseobjections and to put withm the reach of the smoker a medicated cigarwhich can be relied upon to contain an exact proportion of the desiredmaterials.

and Fig. 4 a transverse section thereof.

Referring particularly to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings the cigar 1 ismade up in the usual manner containing a filler 2 and wrapper 3. In thisform the medicament desired to be used is made u in the form of a stickor rod 4, preferably y compressing the vais shown wherein the medicament5 is in ground form and contained within a readily combustible envelop6, as of tissue even a section of cigar wrapper.

In both of these forms it will be noted that the medicated strip isentirely inclosed within the cigar, so that in the initial lighting ofthe cigar the flame meets the. tobacco only, thereby insuring a properand perfect lighting. Furthermore, the medicated portion except as notedextends throughout the entire length of that cigar desired tobe-consumed,'so that during the entire smoking op eration the fumesengendered in the consumption of the medicament reach the throat andrespiratory passages of the smoker in-an even and continuous manner.

The particular and special function of the present invention is 'in'thetreatment and relief of diseases of the respiratory pa sages, ascatarrh, hay-fever, asthma and the connection with the same arestramonium,

paper or anise seed, cubeb berries, nitrate of potash,

etc

I-Iaving thus described the invention what is claimed as new, is 1 Acigar comprising the usual filling of tobacco and a wrapper, and aslender medicated body inclosed centrally within the filling of tobaccoand terminating a short distance from each end thereof and comprising amedicament in finely divided form inclosed in a combustible wra er.

In testimon whereof I a my signature in presence 0 two witnesses. v

- ARTHUR B. KLEIN.

Witnesses:

OSCAR H. BOETKEN, M. H. Lnvr.

